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Arts
Dave Chappelle Assumes We’re Already Offended in His New Netflix Special
“The Dreamer” predictably includes trans and disabled jokes but punches down in other ways, too. Chappelle is part of a…
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News
The Year in Opinion Video
Men serving life sentences in American prisons argued why, decades later, they pose no threat to society. Children whose fathers…
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News
What Are Young Voters Looking For?
Want to ruin a Democratic strategist’s New Year? Bring up President Biden’s popularity problem with younger voters. The strategist may…
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Arts
Murder Most Unromantic in a New ‘Carmen’ at the Metropolitan Opera
A close observer might have noticed the flicker of menace that passed between the man and the woman: how his…
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News
This Was a Terrible Year, and Also Maybe the Best One Yet for Humanity
As the year ends, civilians are dying at a staggering pace in Gaza and the genocide in Darfur may be…
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Books
Mightier — and Meaner — Than the Sword
Emily Cockayne’s “Penning Poison,” a history of anonymous letters, reveals the ways we’ve been torturing one another, verbally, for centuries.
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Books
A Body, a Family and the Woman Who Changed Everything
In “Mercury,” Amy Jo Burns explores the conflicting loyalties and many secrets of a roofing clan in small-town Pennsylvania.
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Books
18 New Books Coming in January
Mercury, by Amy Jo Burns Burns’s second novel introduces the Josephs, a roofing family in Mercury, Pa., who — along…
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News
From the Lens of Lee Friedlander, Real Estate Focusing on the Real
The photographer traveled around the country, shooting the communities we live in, unvarnished and unfiltered.
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Arts
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Surveys of works by Helvi Leiviska and Louis Wayne Ballard, as well as a restored version of “Cavalleria Rusticana,” are…